Eban's Command: Scifi Alien Abduction Romance (Science Fiction Alien Romance) (Survival Wars Book 2) Read Online Free PDF Page A

before. He hadn’t flashed a badge or immediately started pushing her
around. And so far as she could see, no one else had followed him here. Her
whole life she had been taught nothing but acceptance of various ways of life,
of the rhythms of how the earth moved, and now the biggest challenge she had
ever faced was standing right here in front of her. He might not fit into her
belief that the earth moved in circles, but so did the universe. So did
every universe. Everything was interconnected and she’d been playing her part
since the day she was born. Perhaps this just happened to be her next step.
     
    Saffron ran her hand through her hair, adjusted her
headband, and then nodded a little to herself as the strange, potential alien
started to speak again. She would listen, and she would understand. “At first,
we merely followed one signal. However, as we grew closer to this planet, we
began to receive many signals!” He gestured, looking earnestly excited. “So
many signals that our computers cannot receive them all swiftly enough. We also
intercepted your communications broadcast. We knew by then that you were
intelligent, but I cannot describe to you our astonishment when we discovered
how similar our two civilizations were. And the sight of your planet only
convinced us further.”
     
    Saffron tried to follow along as quickly as she could, her
adept mine pulling in information rapidly. They had intercepted some kind of
broadcast. That had to mean the Arecibo message, a one-time broadcast sent far
out into space that contained numbers, elements, DNA, and other assorted
human-related information. She remembered being fascinated by aliens for a long
time after learning of those various attempts to communicate with other
lifeforms in the universe, and so that was where her information came from.
     
    Fascinating to think it had finally found some use, and that
the recipient was standing in her backyard!
     
    “What was it about our planet, though?” she asked curiously.
“If it’s okay to tell me. And why do you speak English so well?”
     
    He, the alien man who called himself Eban, just shook his head.
“I had the same question for you, as to how you have such mastery of Icarian
speech. But, perhaps that is best left for another discussion.”
     
    She had to agree. As much as she wanted to learn
immediately, right at this moment, she was starting to feel like her head might
explode.
     
    Eban gestured around at the barren fields, the overgrown
weeds and the two-foot-tall grasses, and then he pointed over at her garden.
“This is why we came,” he said softly. “Why I am here. We have learned much in
our few hours of studying. Your planet is so lush and full of life. You have
plots of land everywhere upon which food grows, and your animals do not even
have to be raised by hand to thrive! And then, there is you. We heard of you
almost before anything else, and how you have done wonderful things for the
life here.”
     
    Embarrassment heated her cheeks. She looked away a little
bit, suddenly feeling shy. “I was just doing what I love,” she explained. “And
I ended up helping people. That’s not so uncommon or weird.”
     
    “No,” the alien agreed. “You are correct in that, but the
fact of the matter is that this is more than anything we could ever have hoped
for. I need to bring you with me, back to my people.”
     
    There it was. All this time she’d been waiting for this to
go sour, and there it was. She backed away, stumbling a little as her heel hit
a stone behind her. Eban moved as though to catch her, but she just backed up
again. “I don’t think I’m going anywhere with you,” she said coldly, trying to
hide her fear.
     
    To her amazement, the alien held his hands up and out in the
same gesture she’d used on him when she thought he was hurt. “Make no mistake,
I would not force anyone to do anything against their will,” he reassured her.
“It was not a demand, but perhaps I did